Games we've played recently
Webkins
Musicus
Free Rice
Games.yahoo.com
Book Worm
Handbell Hero
What we've learned from video games
- hand-eye coordination
- logical reasoning
- ideas for tech inegration
- problem solving
- concentration
- cause and effect
Difference between complex games and simple games
simple = old game in new package
complex = new game in new package
One - to - One Laptop Initiatives:
Maize - Social Studies department
- students have laptops
- no textbooks
- PLC (professional learning community) - once a week
- common assessment
- Google Earth
- Pedometer activity
Lyons -
- high school - laptops issued to kids to take home
- middle school - students can check out laptops to take home
Issue - Internet access at home
Issue - teachers teaching old ways with new technology
continuum of: old ways with old tools -- old ways with new tools -- new ways with new tools
- Wesley Fryer
- John Utech
historytech.wordpress.org - search for new things
Introductions:
Games we've played recentlyWebkins
Musicus
Free Rice
Games.yahoo.com
Book Worm
Handbell Hero
What we've learned from video games
- hand-eye coordination
- logical reasoning
- ideas for tech inegration
- problem solving
- concentration
- cause and effect
Difference between complex games and simple games
simple = old game in new package
complex = new game in new package
- http://stopdisastersgame.org/en/ - complex game example that can be played quickly
- modding = The extension and modification of computer games by modders, or games communities
Books:
Everything Bad is Good for You - Steven Johnson
Got Game? - John C. Beck, Mitchell Wade
Don't Bother Me, Mom - I'm Learning! - Marc Prensky
Sony WII
- $250 - comes with
- connect to TV or projector
- connect to wireless network
- can buy games or play online games
Online games:
del.iciou.us/glenw98/wii
4teachers.org
More gaming resources:
http://socialstudiescentral.com/?q=node/70
http://socialstudiescentral.com/?q=node/58
One - to - One Laptop Initiatives:
Maize - Social Studies department
- students have laptops
- no textbooks
- PLC (professional learning community) - once a week
- common assessment
- Google Earth
- Pedometer activity
Lyons -
- high school - laptops issued to kids to take home
- middle school - students can check out laptops to take home
Issue - Internet access at home
Issue - teachers teaching old ways with new technology
continuum of: old ways with old tools -- old ways with new tools -- new ways with new tools
- Wesley Fryer
- John Utech
historytech.wordpress.org - search for new things
How about laptops (vtech toys, leap frog learning systems, etc.) for primary students?
Andy Carvin - http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/
Coin Flipper
Show and Tell in PM:
RedZee Search
Phone Number Geolocator and other uncomplicated, powerful network tools
SimpleSpark - catalog of web 2.0 tools
Classtools random word picker and other tools
Newspaper article generator
VozMe - cool speech generator (use to proofread, etc)
TravelerIQ Challenge
Traveler IQ 5th Grade KS state assessment example
State Tetris
Gmap Pedometer
MagMyPic
Flickr Toys
VisualCV
Scribble States
SphinxKids - muscial / composer site
Literactive
All About Animals
PBS Nature interactive games
Fridge Magnets
SciFiles
SchoolTube
Exploratarium
Stellarium